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'No rush' for Afghanistan exit: NATO chief
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
NATO insisted Wednesday there was no move towards a speedier withdrawal from Afghanistan despite recent setbacks, including deadly insider attacks, as the allia...
NATO focuses on Afghan transition
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
NATO defence ministers on Wednesday focus on planning for Afghanistan after combat forces are withdrawn in 2014, knowing that the transition to full control by ...
Modern life, and TV wrestling, come to Nepal Himalayas
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
In the Nepalese hamlet of Simen, five days' walk from the nearest town, children pay for schooling with wood or animal dung, and life appears untouched by moder...
'Friendship wall' on Afghan-US frontline
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
It's called the "friendship wall", but when US soldiers pass through the gate from their base to the Afghan side they "go red", loading their weapons with a rou...
NATO ministers review commitments ahead of Afghan pullout
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
NATO defence ministers meet Tuesday to review the alliance's costly commitments, most notably in Afghanistan, as slowing Western economies seriously undercut de...
NATO warns on Syria-Turkey escalation, tackles Afghanistan
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
NATO warned Tuesday against any escalation in hostilities between Syria and Turkey after border artillery exchanges as alliance defence ministers prepare for a ...
Afghanistan to top NATO meeting agenda, Syria an issue
Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan will top the agenda at a NATO defence ministers' meeting this week but Syria will also feature amid mounting fatalities and tensions with alliance m...
US defense chief blasts Karzai over troop deaths
Oct 06, 2012 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has voiced frustration with Afghan President Hamid Karzai preferring to "criticize" American troops, rather than acknowledging...
Afghan civil war feared as Taliban survive US surge
Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)
With the end of the US surge in Afghanistan, the Taliban have survived the biggest military onslaught the West will throw at them -- and fears are growing that ...
ISAF denies Taliban downed helicopter
Oct 03, 2012 (UPI)
The Taliban have claimed credit for the downing of a NATO helicopter but international forces denied the allegation. The NATO Boeing CH-47D Chinook twin-engine,...
ULFA insurgents eye south Bhutan bases
Oct 02, 2012 (UPI)
Battered by Indian military operations, Assamese insurgents are relocating to Bhutan. Following major Indian military offensives, the United Liberation Front of...
Baghdad moves to end Turkish presence in north Iraq
Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)
Baghdad on Tuesday moved to end Turkey's military presence in north Iraq where Ankara is pursuing Kurdish rebels, signalling a further deterioration in ties bet...
Five die in NATO-Afghan troop firefight: ISAF
Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)
A firefight between NATO troops and their Afghan allies killed five people in circumstances that remained murky Sunday against a background of increasing "insid...
US drone strike kills three militants in Pakistan
Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone strike targeting a vehicle killed at least three militants Monday in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials sai...
Afghan insider attack kills NATO soldier, contractor
Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)
A NATO soldier and a civilian contractor have been killed in a suspected insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, the latest in a series described by a top US gen...
Allen 'mad' about attacks on US troops in Afghanistan
Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)
The top US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen said he was "mad as hell" about attacks by Afghan soldiers on Western troops, but expected them to conti...
80 percent of Afghanistan free of violence: NATO general
Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)
A senior NATO commander says that 80 percent of Afghanistan is free of violence but warned an insurgency still rages in the south and east, fuelled by fighters ...
Taliban likely to regain power in Kabul: analyst
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
The Afghan government will collapse and Taliban insurgents are likely to retake power after the US and NATO pull their troops out in 2014, a respected internati...
US, Pakistan called off military talks due to protests: US
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
A planned meeting between US and Pakistani military chiefs was postponed this week due to a wave of violent anti-American protests, the top-ranking US officer, ...
NATO joint patrols with Afghans back to 'normal': US
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
NATO-led troops have resumed most joint operations with Afghan forces after commanders restricted patrols with their allies in Afghanistan due to a spike in ins...
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